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040 _aAFVC
100 _aOverall, Nickola C.
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245 _aSexist attitudes predict family - based aggression during a COVID-19 lockdown
_cNickola C. Overall, Valerie T. Chang, E.J. Cross, S.T. Low and A.M.E. Henderson
260 _c2020
500 _aJournal of Family Psychology, 2020, In press
520 _aThe current research examined whether men’s hostile sexism was a risk factor for family-based aggression during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in which families were confined to the home for 5 weeks. Parents who had reported on their sexist attitudes and aggressive behavior toward intimate partners and children prior to the COVID-19 pandemic completed assessments of aggressive behavior toward their partners and children during the lockdown (N = 362 parents of which 310 were drawn from the same family). Accounting for pre-lockdown levels of aggression, men who more strongly endorsed hostile sexism reported greater aggressive behavior toward their intimate partners and their children during the lockdown. The contextual factors that help explain these longitudinal associations differed across targets of family-based aggression. Men’s hostile sexism predicted greater aggression toward intimate partners when men experienced low power during couples’ interactions, whereas men’s hostile sexism predicted greater aggressive parenting when men reported lower partner-child relationship quality. Novel effects also emerged for benevolent sexism. Men’s higher benevolent sexism predicted lower aggressive parenting, and women’s higher benevolent sexism predicted greater aggressive behavior toward partners, irrespective of power and relationship quality. The current study provides the first longitudinal demonstration that men’s hostile sexism predicts residual changes in aggression toward both intimate partners and children. Such aggressive behavior will intensify the health, well-being, and developmental costs of the pandemic, highlighting the importance of targeting power-related gender role beliefs when screening for aggression risk and delivering therapeutic and education interventions as families face the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19. (Authors' abstract). Record #6973
650 _aAGGRESSION
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650 _aATTITUDES
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650 _aCHILD ABUSE
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650 _aCOVID-19
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aFAMILY VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aMEN
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650 _aPANDEMICS
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650 _aPARENTING
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650 _aRISK FACTORS
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650 0 _96507
_aSEXISM
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aChang, Valerie T.
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700 _aCross, Emily J.
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700 _aLow, Rachel S. T.
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700 _aHenderson, Annette M. E.
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773 0 _tJournal of Family Psychology, 2020, In press
830 _aJournal of Family Violence
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p23bv
_yDOI: 10.31234/osf.io/p23bv (Open access)
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_cARTICLE